RE: wildflower or just perennial
perennials@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: wildflower or just perennial
  • From: &* R* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 19:47:23 -0700

N,o mine is white.  Sticky flowers and seeds that are moving over whole hillside.  I found one the size of a quarter several years ago on Rich Mt which is next to the Smoky Mountain Park.  Had permission.  Anyway so far no one knows it and rangers and herbarium insist it is not native.  Maybe the seeds stuck to a bird?  Anyone growing this little plant?  6 inches flower stem and plant.  In the shade and taking over the rocks on path through the woods.  It is pretty all the time even with out flowers.  But do not want to let it continue its merry ways.  So if you want seeds let me know.
Nancy
 

To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: RE: wildflower or just perennial
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 18:15:44 -0400
From: 101_@rewrite.hort.net

Sure looks like Scutellaria altissima  to me. Loved by bees and butterflies. A perennial up here. And as it happens I just got one of these too! At least the leaf structure and flower shape are identical. Flowers are blue? I was excited to get mine - came from a friends garden - she has the most interesting and unusual stuff in a huge garden and can rhyme off the correct botanical name of everything in it. 
Gotta love friends who share. I have another friend who is in the process of moving, and she has dug up and moved about 250 plants at least half of which she especially treasures because they came from friends.

Lil T
Georgetown ON

 


> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:47:04 -0500
> Subject: wildflower or just perennial
> To: perennials@hort.net
> From: d1f5fc811@rewrite.hort.net
>
> Wondering if anyone knows this plant? It is cute and little but
> spreading more than I want it too. Thanks, Nancy


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